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Close Reading in the Classroom

Class Details

  • Class Type: Online
  • Date: 9/9/2024 - 10/20/2024
  • Adams State Credit: 2
  • Nonmember Price: $190
  • CEA Member Price: $90

  • Registration for the optional graduate credits ($55 per credit) is a separate transaction through Adams State. Registration information will be available after you enroll and once the course is listed on the graduate credit portal.

  • Currently Enrolled: 0 of 30
  • Class Type: Online
  • Date: 5/27/2024 - 7/7/2024
  • Adams State Credit: 2
  • Nonmember Price: $190
  • CEA Member Price: $90

  • Registration for the optional graduate credits ($55 per credit) is a separate transaction through Adams State. Registration information will be available after you enroll and once the course is listed on the graduate credit portal.

  • Currently Enrolled: 13 of 30

About the Course

The purpose of this course is to provide English Language Arts teachers with the information, tools, and confidence to implement close reading strategies into their units of study. Throughout the course, teachers will actively participate in online learning to further develop their understanding of close reading, close reading instructional strategies, as well as close reading scaffolds for ELLs.

This course is appropriate for ELA teachers of all grade levels who are looking to move past reading comprehension and into deeper analysis of texts.

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • Define what close reading is and the purpose that it serves within the English Language Arts classroom.
  • Design a close reading system and approach that works for his or her own unique classroom needs and reading levels.
  • Create text-dependent questions that build from general comprehension to more complex analysis of a text.
  • Utilize the backwards design model in order to write learning objectives and select appropriate texts for the design of rigorous close reading lessons. 
  • Apply various close reading strategies across multiple genres of texts.
  • Incorporate appropriate scaffolds in order for all students, including multilingual learners, to access and analyze texts.
  • Grade(s): Kindergarten 1st Grade 2nd Grade 3rd Grade 4th Grade 5th Grade 6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade 9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade Elementary K-5 Secondary 6-12
  • Subject(s): English Language Arts Professional Development Reading,Writing,Communicating
  • Teacher Quality Standard(s): QS 1.A QS 1.B QS 1.C QS 2.C QS 3.B

Facilitator

Melissa Spaly

Reviews

Sara Gacnik
Excellent course on Close Reading! There was a varied range of reading and other learning resources and the assignments were truly centered on creating materials for my current classroom. I walked away from this course with some awesome new assignments for my students and my teaching!
Jasmine Rife
This was a great course. Very thorough and thoughtful in the choice of readings and development of products. Lots of information I can bring straight back into my classroom.

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